REST is an unvarnished documentary about the people at a rest stop and a camping site on the Danube motorway near Vienna. Whether campers on holiday or truck drivers forced to take breaks on Sundays, the conversation starts when motors go silent. REST visits the folks on the road and their a life of freedom and constant movement as well as loneliness and stasis.
Director Iris Blauensteiner (SWEAT; THE_OTHER_IMAGES) dedicates her film to the drivers and holidaymakers during their voluntary and involuntary breaks - while taking communal showers or eating plastic-wrapped sandwiches from the petrol station kiosk.

We are accumulating more and more data, images and sound snippets. But how can we remember when digital materials marked by decay fail? When formats, players and codecs have become unplayable? Filmmaker and author Iris Blauensteiner (SCHWITZEN) traces remaining data and memories from past projects and lends them a second, ghostly existence.
One hard drive, 2.8 terabytes, remaining data from ten years: Outtakes, photos, sound files, e-mails, script parts, discarded ideas. THE_OTHER_IMAGES is an experimental short film. Ghostly magic scenes emerge from the digital remains and mistakes. The memories are recycled. They demand a changed cinematic experience, a new narrative - a different film.

With a pulsating sound comes an Austrian still life stripped bare: SWEAT tells the last three days of a friendship between two girls. Summer holidays, backwoods, boredom. Two girlfriends ponder the future and shoot the breeze. Frustrated by the eternal monotony, they channel their adolescent insecurities into spontaneous outbursts of aggression. The law of the jungle reigns.
In the beautifully photographed vacuum of a village cosmos, director Iris Blauensteiner creates a coming-of-age portrait between wannabe and gangster attitudes, disco and a cautious quest for identity.